EUGENE (ANP) - Jorinde van Klinken is op het onderdeel discuswerpen bij de Diamond League in het Amerikaanse Eugene tweede geworden. De 26-jarige Nederlandse kwam in haar tweede poging tot 68,21 meter. Haar landgenote Alida van Daalen wierp een afstand van 65,02 meter, goed voor de derde plaats. Het goud ging naar Valarie Sion uit de Verenigde Staten, die 68,64 meter noteerde.

Van Klinken had in april bij internationale werpwedstrijden in het Amerikaanse Ramona haar Nederlands record nog aangescherpt naar 70,99 meter.

Stefan Nillessen liep op de Engelse mijl naar de tweede plaats in een tijd van 3.50,50. Hij moest alleen de Amerikaan Liam Murphy nipt voor zich dulden (3.50,49). Diens landgenoot Abel Teffra werd derde in 3.51,13.

In Rotterdam-Prinsenland is in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag geschoten op een auto. Aanleiding was waarschijnlijk een verkeersruzie.

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Here's my Americana display from LEGO spacecraft to the NTSC version of the Super Nintendo!

(Now it'll be just another 12 Years until Australia's 250th!)

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Here's my Americana display from LEGO spacecraft to the NTSC version of the Super Nintendo!

(Now it'll be just another 12 Years until Australia's 250th!)

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Here's my Americana display from LEGO spacecraft to the NTSC version of the Super Nintendo!

(Now it'll be just another 12 Years until Australia's 250th!)

Popplio728 has added a photo to the pool:

Here's my Americana display from LEGO spacecraft to the NTSC version of the Super Nintendo!

(Now it'll be just another 12 Years until Australia's 250th!)

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Here's my Americana display from LEGO spacecraft to the NTSC version of the Super Nintendo!

(Now it'll be just another 12 Years until Australia's 250th!)

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Fighting a losing battle, the stars of the Milky Way core fade gently into a colourless dawn over the Tasman Sea.

From the northern gulch, Binalong Bay / larapuna, Bay of Fires.

Composite image comprising two exposures 60 mins apart.

Nikon Z6, Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8.

Foreground: 8 secs at f/16, ISO 80. Breakthrough Photography 6 Stop ND filter.
Sky: 20 secs at f/2, ISO 2000.

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Azumino, Nagano

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For those growing sick of Earth's geopolitics, NASA is looking for volunteers to spend a year living and working in isolated conditions in preparation for a journey to some other celestial orb. The US space agency is set to carry out a simulated deep space mission from no earlier than August 2027 to understand what might happen to its human lab rats during planned crewed missions to the Moon or Mars. Johnson Space Center in Houston will be home to the willing participants who are set for a yearlong Moon and Mars Exploration Analog experience designed to help keep potential space travelers safe and mission-ready during future stays on the Red Planet or Earth's natural satellite. The simulation could also inform plans for a sustained lunar presence through the agency's Moon Base and future Artemis missions. The "experience" will take place in two confined habitats. The NASA notice does not say whether there will be outside comms, but specifies physical and educational requirements, as well as a willingness to take part in a multi-day selection process and pass a psychological assessment. "Candidates also should have a strong desire for unique, rewarding experiences, and interest in contributing to NASA's work to prepare for extended stays on the lunar surface and the first crewed mission to Mars," the notice says. Given the state of affairs, there may well be a flood of applicants who feel skipping a year would be well worth the inevitable curbs on their freedoms. Nonetheless, they may wonder about the world they will emerge to find when the experiment ends. Will WWE star Cody Rhodes be running for president, given the recent showcase on the White House lawn? Anything is possible in a world that shows an unnerving resemblance to Mike Judge's 2006 Idiocracy. Then again, given the perilous state of NASA's funding under the Trump regime, it is always possible volunteers could fall victim to cuts while they were in isolation, leaving no one to tell them the experiment had reached its end. ®

To Abaigail Adams from John Adams, July, 3, 1776. "The second of July, 1776, "It ought to be Solemnized with Pomp and Parade with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more." Adams started the letter, "Had a Declaration of Independency been made seven Months ago, it would have been attended with many great and glorious Effects . . . We might before this Hour, have formed Alliances with foreign States. We should have mastered Quebec and been in Possession of Canada ....

"You will perhaps wonder, how such a Declaration would have influenced our Affairs, in Canadabut if I could write with Freedom I could easily convince you, that it would, and explain to you the manner how. -- Many Gentlemen in high Stations and of great Influence have been duped, by the ministerial Bubble of Commissioners to treat .... And in real, sincere Expectation of this effort Event, which they so fondly wished, they have been slow and languid, in promoting Measures for the Reduction of that Province." He goes to till the "parade with shews". "You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States." 'Epilogue: Securing the Republic' CHAPTER 18 | Document 17 John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States 1787 Works 6:130--31, 206--8 "The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than that to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for a worse, unless the people have sense, spirit, and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against tyranny; against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many. Let it be the study, therefore, of lawgivers and philosophers, to enlighten the people's understandings and improve their morals, by good and general education; to enable them to comprehend the scheme of government, and to know upon what points their liberties depend; to dissipate those vulgar prejudices and popular superstitions that oppose themselves to good government; and to teach them that obedience to the laws is as indispensable in them as in lords and kings."

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Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

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Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book, as well as her new title, Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World.

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From Countdown and Five Go Mad in Dorset to Barbie and White Noise, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 What is the UK’s single most dispensed medicine?
2 Fólkvangr was the alternative destination to where?
3 In June 2026, which pottery firm ended production after 217 years?
4 Which religion’s calendar is determined by moon sighting committees?
5 The Filipino Efren Reyes is considered the GOAT of what indoor game?
6 Which awards were founded by the late Kanya King?
7 Which Cossack inspired works by Byron, Pushkin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky?
8 Which US state is said to have been ruled by six flags?
What links:
9 Black-footed; Fishing; Geoffroy’s; Pallas’s; Sand?
10 Countdown; The Body Show; Brookside; Walter; Five Go Mad in Dorset?
11 Hjalmar Schacht (minister of economics); Franz von Papen (vice-chancellor); Hans Fritzsche (propagandist)?
12 Murchison Promontory, Nunavut; Cape Nordkinn, Finnmark; Cape Chelyuskin, Siberia?
13 Little Miss Sunshine; Barbie and White Noise; The Hurt Locker and Titanic?
14 Adversary; Agent; Garden; History; Pilgrim?
15 Rome, 390BC; Ballantine’s warehouse, Dumbarton; São Pedro de Alcântara prison, Brazil?

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In this week’s newsletter: A tour through the moments when American celebrities crossed the ocean and landed somewhere entirely unexpected

Hurrah! Today is the Guide’s 250th instalment, an anniversary celebrated the world over, with concerts and ticker tape parades and 10-part documentaries about its historical significance. You’re probably already a bit exhausted by all the wall-to-wall coverage, in fact. Also tomorrow, the United States of America might be celebrating some birthday or other, though it doesn’t sound like anybody is terribly fussed about it.

To mark both anniversaries, this week’s Guide is a “special relationship” special, with 25 of the most unlikely US/UK pop-cultural crossovers – those moments where American celebrities find themselves rubbing their stardust, intentionally or otherwise, all over weird corners of British popular culture, or vice versa. Read on for tales of Orson Welles in Norwich and Matt Berry at the Oscars.

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You’d think there was nothing new to learn about the glamour model-turned-tabloid sensation. You’d be wrong…

‘Boobs,” says Katie Price, expressionlessly. “I always wanted a boob job. Always wanted them bigger.” Price, 48, places her tiny, tanned hands on the mountainous upper region of her pastel pink sweatshirt, under which lurk the latest results of this glandular restlessness. “I never wanted natural. I wanted stuck-on,” she says. “I wanted fake.” And so it came to pass. Now, 17 or so operations later, here she is, fidgeting on a beige sofa as she discusses the surgeries (“the pain!”), the insatiable ambition, the breakdowns, the flammable thongs, the still-bewildered ex-husbands and all the other stuff that has helped turn her into one of Britain’s longest-running soap operas; every bit of self-generated drama catapulting us, speechless, into the next instalment.

The new four-part series Katie Price: Nothing to Hide (Wednesday, 9pm, Sky Documentaries) promises several cliffhangers of its own. Here, it bugles, is a “revealing portrait” that will “go beyond the headlines”. Oh God, we think, as Price’s eyebrows disappear behind yet another nimbus of synthetic fog (the woman vapes like a furnace). Not again. We have read the unreadable memoirs, endured myriad “tell-all” documentaries and suffered any number of hand-wringing tabloid “exclusives”. Could there really be anything left to know about the woman who has, we are told, “sold every aspect of her life”? The answer is yes, actually, and it is, remarkably, as fascinating and exhausting as its subject.

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Brexit means ‘home fee’ qualification ends in 2028, leaving those hoping to study in UK not now eligible for loans

British teenagers living in the EU could be priced out of UK universities in two years’ time as a Brexit rule change means they face the double whammy of paying costlier international fees, while losing access to student finance.

British passport holders living in the EU still qualify for “home fee” status at UK universities. But this will no longer be the case when the grace period ends in 2028, meaning the first wave to be affected are starting their A-levels, or equivalent, this autumn.

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